Van Gogh Museum collections

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Van Gogh, Vincent. Sunflowers, 1889. Oil on canvas, 95 cm x 73 cm. Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum.

Description A descriptive note detailing the content and context of the digital collection.

The Van Gogh Museum is an art museum dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh. It contains the largest collection of his paintings and drawings in the world. The digital collection contains more than 830 works by Vincent and his contemporaries. The digital images of the works can be downloaded for non-commercial purposes in high-resolution, which are an average of 6,000 x 6,000 pixels. The collection can be searched or filtered by artist, location, year, type and genre.

Collection Type Broad terms that define the type of digital collection

Museum and Cultural Institution Collections, Contain Public Domain Images Only

Subject Broad terms or phrases that describe, identify, or interpret the digital image collection and what it depicts or expresses. Values were obtained using the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) by the Getty Research Institute.

Figures (representations), Landscapes (representations), Nature, Peasants, People (agents), Portraits, Still lifes, [Van Gogh]

Style Period Terms that define the styles, art periods, movements, etc. whose characteristics are represented in digital image collection. Values were obtained using the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) by the Getty Research Institute

Contemporary, Impressionism, Modern, Modern (style or period), Post-Impressionist

Work Types Terms that identify the kinds of works in the digital collection being described. It typically refers to a work’s physical form, function, or medium in digital image collection. Values were obtained using the Thesaurus For Graphic Materials (TGM) by Library of Congress.

Drawings, Illustrations, Paintings, Prints

Openness Openness of the digital collection determined using the 4R activities by Wiley (2010).

Allow Reuse and Redistribute for educational and non-commercial purposes

Notes on Usage Additional notes on the terms of use on the digital images in the collection.

“Images of the Van Gogh Museum collection up to and including A4 size in TIF format may be downloaded and distributed for non-commercial use, with the exception of images of works by artists in our collection that are still subject to copyright, in other words by artists who have been dead for less than 70 years.” No citation requirement mentioned in the terms of use. Image can be cited by including creator name, title of image, year of creation (if unknown, indicate n.d.), medium, physical dimensions, accessed date, source and url of digital image:

e.g. Van Gogh, Vincent. Sunflowers, 1889. Oil on canvas, 95 cm x 73 cm. Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum. http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0031V1962.

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Please check their Terms of Use for full details before using images.

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